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Most charming were the girls of our class. Everyone has had the supernatural inherent qualities to outdo each other. This was a marvelous combination of traits. But what exactly am I referring to? Girls, who have now crossed the half century mark now, have evolved into beautiful ladies. But the urge to take on each other, though obscure, is very much prevalent. It's still catfights! Catfights are most enjoyed when someone sprinkles water on the fighting cats! The pun continues unhindered with the boys still hit at their antics that they were accustomed to in their school heydays, without compromising that almost four decades having sailed by. There's an unapparelled ubiquitous love and hate relationship that still shroud Raampyari and Raamdulari.On field, the battle was fierce. None could take them on, leave aside the umpire or referee who would scratch his bald head over the tiff. Raampyari and Raamdulari were the cynosure of all. They were excellent in studies and extra co

It was a marriage of two states, without much essence in it. The groom and bride, though from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds, had a common residential domicile. In that binding cord, they bond. Both were conversant and easy on every matter that concerned them. This nurtured their love for each other that nourished their longingness. They met in college while pursuing professional studies in the late eighties and early nineties. Used to come home and go back together during college breaks; not to speak about attending common classes and the daily strolls by the famous lovers' lane in college. This lane had street lights that never used to light up. The best caption I heard about was that the picture of love developed best in dark! Don't know if that holds good today as the present generation wouldn't know how a good photograph used to develop from a polymer negative plate encased in a dark chamber. The luxury of having a camera and a print in colour is etch

[With avid inputs from Ahuja Sir and Rajada ] While the Northern hemisphere looked forward to the blooms of spring, a tiny microorganism was and is wreaking havoc all around the globe. Somewhere in the winter of 2019 this nano virus hop-stepped and jumped over from possibly the Pangolin or the Himalayan Civet Cat or Bats onto the first human carrier, a 57 year old meat seller in Wuhan – China and spread like wildfire, engulfing many who came its way. Misery struck the world in the form of a pandemic that leaped in exponential progressions to suck up the energies and potentials of earth. People got hyperactive on various platforms of social media to project how well acquainted they were about the spread of the virus code named Covid 19 well, the Chinese virus to many, that arrived with a bouquet of unabated deaths. The message may have been absolutely clear about the spread of the disease with malafide intentions of the mighty that, many in the electronic media professed bu